The Republican journal., 1887-08-04

''Nou think there is no rebel spirit in ths
South. We'll YOU do not know ANYTHING about
it," sail Captain 4. :. Carpenter of Illinois.
in the Hoffman House recently to Il number
of his acHaint;nce> aud Il Mu@wump friend
with whom he had been discussing the rebel
flag question. Captain Carpenter. says the
New York Tribune, recently returned from
TeNa- whcr' il,' Is Engaged in rro:aoin- rail
road enterprise. He added; II have been
tendrr-moulhci about the South for furr or
five wears. ! thought it WAS about time for To
f. stop what they called the 'hiooly shirt cry
to let up OH them, in other words. But
heard enough talk in TcNa~ among the south
crHrrS there To convince me that the old spirit
of til" tonfedrracy is As much alive to-day Is
ii WAS when they fired on Fort sumter. They
are not asserting HAT they will tight. bcc;,ll>,
they have learned pretty good lesson about
fighting; but they intend to make their fight
just the same and score their point if they can
without any appeal to arms. One fellow said
to me ut the hotel where | was stopping at
Galveston. that if President cleveland woul,l
stand hy his order the people of the South
would 90 up To Washington and take the laea
whether or not there was opposition from the
North. You scratch genuine Southern man
on his hack on the subject of secession and he
Is Is much of sccc>sioniSt to-day as if he had
not appealed to the arbitramen of war ON that
question and been whipped at it. have come
home from there thoroughly determined tc
wave the bloody shirt and dcnotnrc Southern
methods and views until all the secession s
trounced ont of these fellows in one way or
another. 1t is they who ilalmt the bloody shirt
and not the people of the North"
In something of the same vein were remarks
made recently by Colonel W. =. Cana,lav, ser
@cant-at-arm> of the United States Senate of
North Carolina. The Colonel was a Confeder-
ate soldier and has been long Il resident of
North Carolina and one of the prominent
political factors in that State Colonel Cana,lay
is Republican. and has been since the war
He said: "'Ihcre is more waving of the bloody
shirt in the Confederate circles of the South
than there is among the old soldiers of the
North or among the politicians of the North.
As 4 fact, the relc bloody shirt is the stock
in trade of nincty-nine out of one hundred of
the orators of the South to-day. You nav 20
to the county fair and hear an address, or to a
college commencement and hear oratons, or to
a public gathering and hear speech, or attend
any kind of public occasion where there is
spcechmakng and you will hear the lost cause
alluded to in some form or other rs 4 thing to
be glorited remembered and treasured 1t IL
the one thing that tie Southern orator keeps
on hand rs Il sort of stock in trade, and his
appeal is to the old Confederate element to stand
together and make common cause against
Northern politicians and Northern policy of
government. The very same men in almost
the same breath will ,lenounce John Sherman
as bloody shrter for standing up and dc-
manding for every man in the United States,
black or white, his right to vote, free. ul-
tramelled and unchallenged, whether he be
North or South, East or West. The inconsist-
ency of this thing is getting tiresome and in
duces me to speak where otherwise l might
hold my tongue